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3:24 am
June 7, 2010
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I'm having a moment here, so please be patient.
I recall seeing the Catalogue from the British Library's 500th Anniversary for Henry VIII. Was Anne's execution warrant on display then, or am I thinking of the wrong thing?
If this is the case, I am not sure where it's usually kept.
"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn
3:34 am
December 5, 2009
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The warrant for Anne's execution is definitely still in existence because Ives refers to the wording of it. It states that Henry, moved to pity, allowed Anne to be beheaded rather than burnt. Ives describes Henry murdering his wife but being moved to pity as nauseating.
I don't know where the original document is kept but most of the original documents referred to in Letters and Papers are kept at the National Archives at Kew. So I would take a guess that it's there.
